First, safety: Nickel (NI/NI200) or Titanium (TI), NEVER heat those up outside of temp control.... if you use these metals and the coil gets dirty, throw them out and build new ones.
If you have Khantal (KH) or Stainless (SS), you can dry heat them up but never go beyond a dull red while pulsing, otherwise the metal can and will oxidize and it's not good.
So if you plan to clean a KH or SS coil, it's simply a case of removing the wick, rinse under gently running water (making sure that you aren't getting water on your mod), pulse the power bit by bit, rinse and repeat until the coil is clean.
The goal is to burn the gunk off without making your coil go too red. If the gunk is stuck, use ceramic tweezers or similar to strum the coil like a guitar string, gently, just to make the pieces of burnt gunk come/fall off.
Do NOT use flammable liquids or substances such as alcohol.
Using a torch/flame on the coil is also not good. I did some tests, and you can't heat the wire evenly, can cause it to become brittle, overheating it is very easy (so it oxidizes). It's a lot better to use your mod (or if you get a tester that can heat the coil that's even better) to dry heat the coil.
Let me know if I missed something, and please go read and enjoy all my other entries as I'm building my blog, I'm trying to cover every aspect of vaping that I know about. I'll keep adding items as I think of them and have the time to write them.
If you have Khantal (KH) or Stainless (SS), you can dry heat them up but never go beyond a dull red while pulsing, otherwise the metal can and will oxidize and it's not good.
So if you plan to clean a KH or SS coil, it's simply a case of removing the wick, rinse under gently running water (making sure that you aren't getting water on your mod), pulse the power bit by bit, rinse and repeat until the coil is clean.
The goal is to burn the gunk off without making your coil go too red. If the gunk is stuck, use ceramic tweezers or similar to strum the coil like a guitar string, gently, just to make the pieces of burnt gunk come/fall off.
Do NOT use flammable liquids or substances such as alcohol.
Using a torch/flame on the coil is also not good. I did some tests, and you can't heat the wire evenly, can cause it to become brittle, overheating it is very easy (so it oxidizes). It's a lot better to use your mod (or if you get a tester that can heat the coil that's even better) to dry heat the coil.
Let me know if I missed something, and please go read and enjoy all my other entries as I'm building my blog, I'm trying to cover every aspect of vaping that I know about. I'll keep adding items as I think of them and have the time to write them.
